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OK, here's a sampling of what we have on display. Remember, unless I state otherwise, these are actual relics from A.D. 79, buried under the ash at Pompeii.

This is a plaster reproduction of a carbonized loaf of bread found there

Ya'll come see us!
Gulf Coast Exploreum, 65 Government Street, Mobile, Alabama 36602.
(Disclaimer: This is a private website; no implication of the Exploreum approving or hell, even agreeing with my opinions is implied, and I do not speak for them in any way. I just thought the Exhibition was cool.)

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...somewhat.

You scored as Adelai Niska. You have met many people, in the Shan-Yu sense of the word. You are not much of a fighter, but your reputation (which is solid) is all you need to keep people polite. Adelai Niska 81% Hands of Blue 63% Badger 63% Atherton Wing 63% Scrappers 56% Jubal Early 56% Federal Marshall 56% Patience 50% Rance Burgess 50% Reaver 44% Crow 44% Saffron 38% Alliance Agent 38% Alliance Officer 19% Which Firefly Villain are you? created with QuizFarm.com

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The Hollow Men

T. S. Eliot (1925)
I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer --

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

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